Harmless Error Rule

Colorado has enacted the harmless error rule of UPC § 2-503 (C.R.S.A. § 15-11-503(1) with an additional requirement that the offered document be signed or acknowledged by the decedent as his or her will ( C.R.S.A. § 15-11-503(2) ). In Estate of Wiltfong, WL 2975475 (Colo.App. 2006) the court held that the statute does not require that the decedent declare that a signed document is a will and therefore remanded the matter for a determination of whether clear and convincing evidence showed that the decedent intended the document to be his will.